Courses and Researches in the field of history of women and history of Women’s Education at the faculty of Humanities, University of Pécs, Hungary

Abstract

This paper provides a brief overview how research on history of women and history of women’s
education going on, and in what courses they appear in the subject areas. The article
focuses on the undergraduate, post-graduate and doctoral studies which show the contents of
the gender perspective. The study also covers the issue what major research work has been
done and what works were made in the past decades, and takes also an outlook on the comparative
approach. This approach would help to clarify through what channels which people
and works history of women and history of women’s education arrived at the Hungarian
discourse. In our opinion source-centered, problem-based, and multi-perspective approach of
history of education or history of women’s education provides not only more knowledge
about the history of women for student teachers but a wider horizon of understanding Hungarian
and European history of our societies. Gender aspects in teacher training programs
are essential part of the competence development of future teacher which prepare student for
independent problem processing, critical thinking, synchronistic and multi-perspective approaches,
and following equity aspects.